Dracula and the gothic in literature, pop culture and the arts / edited by Isabel Ermida.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ermida, Isabel, editor.

Series:

DQR studies in literature ; Volume 60.

DQR Studies in Literature, 0921-2507 ; Volume 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--History and criticism.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912. Dracula.

Stoker, Bram.

Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912--Criticism and interpretation.

Dracula (Stoker, Bram).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill Rodopi, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume brings together fourteen articles that reappraise the productivity of Stoker’s Dracula and the strong influence it still exerts on today’s generations. The volume explores various multimodal and multimedia adaptations of the book, by critically examining its literary, cinematic, theatrical, televised and artistic versions. In so doing, it reassesses the origins, evolution, imagery, mythology, theory and criticism of Gothic fiction and of the Gothic (sub)culture. The volume is innovative in that it congregates various angles to the Gothic phenomenon, providing an overview of the interdisciplinary relationships between different cultural, artistic and creative reworkings of the Gothic in general and of Stoker’s legacy in particular.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Isabel Ermida

Gothic Old and New: Introduction / Isabel Ermida

“The Son of the Vampire”: Greek Gothic, or Gothic Greece? / Álvaro García Marín

The Old and New Dracula Castle: The Poienari Fortress in Dracula Sequels and Travel Memoirs / Marius-Mircea Crisan

Dracula Orientalized / Raphaella Delores Gomez

Empire, Monsters and Barbarians: Uncanny Echoes and Reconfigurations of Stoker’s Dracula in Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians / Rogers Asempasah

Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood: An Anatomy of the American Gothic / Carlos Azevedo

Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931):The Vampire Wears a Dress Coat / Dorota Babilas

Aurally Bloodcurdling: Representing Dracula and His Brethren in BBC Radio Drama / Leslie McMurtry

“Land of Apparitions”:The Depiction of Ghosts and Other Supernatural Occurrences in the First Gothic Plays / Eva Coupková

Gothic Architecture, Castles and Villains: Transgression, Decay and the Gothic Locus Horribilis / Fanny Lacôte

Postmodern Gothic: Teen Vampires / Joana Passos

Vampires “On a Special Diet”: Identity and the Body in Contemporary Media Texts / Lea Gerhards

Forever Young, Though Forever Changing: Evolution of the Vampire / Maria Antónia Lima

Who’s Afraid of Don Juan? Vampirism and Seduction / Maria do Carmo Mendes

Destroying and Creating Identity: Vampires, Chaos and Society in Angela Carter’s “The Scarlet House” / Inês Botelho

Bibliography / Isabel Ermida

Notes on Contributors / Isabel Ermida

Index / Isabel Ermida.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-30806-7

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004308060 DOI